WATERBURY -- Police arrested a woman over the weekend as part of a long investigation into a prostitution operation they say was being run out of an ordinary-looking home on Highview Street.

Elisa "Chica" Rodrigues, 40, was charged with second-degree promoting prostitution as part of an investigation by the police Vice and Intelligence Division.

Police raided the Cape Cod-style home at 51 Highview St. in February after they say men were seen coming and going from the home in time intervals that matched advertisements for escort services listed on Backpage.com.

Inside the home, police said they found 225 bags of heroin, 42 grams of crack cocaine, 4 grams of powdered cocaine and more than $16,000.

Police suspected that a target of the raid, 41-year-old Barry Pringle, had set up shop in the home after police shut down another suspected prostitution operation on Draher Street.

In June, police raided the Draher Street house, where they arrested Pringle and seized a gun in addition to drugs and money.

Witnesses told police that Pringle and his girlfriend, Rodrigues, were living in the home with other women who offered sex for money as they worked as "escorts" in the area.

Men would either meet the women at a pre-arranged location or drive to the Highview Street home as part of the service. The women had to fork over $40 to Rodrigues and Pringle after each transaction as payment for living in the home, witnesses told police.

As the police investigation progressed, members of the vice unit also set up a sting in a city hotel to arrest one of the suspected hookers, 33-year-old Samantha Pillar.

Police sent a text message to Pillar to set up the meet, then watched as she left the home and drove to the hotel.

Police say Pillar agreed to have sex with an undercover officer for $200 and was arrested after she started to take her clothes off in the room.

Rodrigues wasn't in the home at the time of the police raid and was believed to have enrolled in a rehab program, according to an arrest warrant.

Rodrigues, who has a stylized "BP" tattoo on her neck, appeared Monday in Waterbury Superior Court, but was later released after posting a $200,000 bond. Pringle is also free on a $50,000 bond.

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